"From the arrival of the Adjuster to comparative full growth, about twenty years of age on Urantia, the Monitors are sometimes designated Thought Changers. From this time to the attainment of the age of discretion, about forty years, the Mystery Monitors are called Thought Adjusters. From the attainment of discretion to deliverance from the flesh, they are often referred to as Thought Controllers." (107:0.7)
On another blog, a reader argued that this paragraph interprets as:
- From the time of the TA arrival to age 20: Thought Changer
- For the next 40 years, from age 20 to age 60: Thought Adjuster
- From age 60 to graduation: Thought Controller
So, having just returned from the grocery store (with Häagen-Daz), I sat down (with Häagen-Daz) and contemplated 107:0.7 and another quote:
"Adjusters reach their human subjects on Urantia, on the average, just prior to the sixth birthday. In the present generation it is running five years, ten months, and four days; that is, on the 2,134th day of terrestrial life." (108:2.1)
Therefore (me thinks) ...
Ages 0 - 6: pre-Adjuster
7 - 20 Thought Changer
21 - 40 Thought Adjuster
41+ Thought Controller
Here's why (IMO) ...
Best grammatical clue to me: "twenty years of age" (if a length of time - not biologic age - this would be expressed as "twenty years" - not "twenty years of age". And "forty years" is likely a common grammatical abbreviation of "forty years of age" (following the previous grammatical pattern set by "twenty years of age").
Also, 60+ years of age would be a few decades past the overall prime of human life where the greatest growth (combined physical, mental, spiritual) would have occurred; the body physical starts declining after 35 years of age:
Re:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ageing
"a period of near perfect renewal (in humans, between 20 and 35 years of age)"
This quote addresses these first two points:
1) "years of age" refers to biologic age - not period of time.
2) indirectly suggests that "perfect renewal" then starts degrading.
3) we're not maturing if the "age of discretion" occurs long after age 40!
So, all this suggests that average humans would have matured sufficiently by age 40 to permit their Thought Adjuster to now take the lead (at least, more often) on this planet 606, just-beginning journey to Paradise ... a perspective from my post-perfect-renewal period ... and with a pre-analysis reward of a half pint of Häagen-Daz Strawberry with 1/4 cup sliced almonds.
OMG! I'm ready to rationalize the other half pint with this PPRP perspective! Not to worry - my Adjuster would communicate that earlier mansonia departure (due to high cholesterol) is relatively unimportant.
Rod ...
... (hiding the keys in case I run out of Häagen-Daz tonight).